As with many modestly budgeted monster films, our views of the titular creature are fleeting and often obfuscated - at least until the end. This shouldn't be any kind of deterrent to anyone seeking out 'Night of the Wolf': it's great fun. A shaggy killer wages terror over a gentle, picturesque retirement community, and that's all you really need to know.
The story is imaginative and never run-of-the-mill. As we get to see more of the antagonists, it's good to see a lack of CGI, which for me, robs a production of its essential sense of 'place' - unless there's millions of pounds or dollars being spent. Much better that, for their flaws, these creatures are of the physical variety. Nice transformation too.
Directed effectively by Adrián García Bogliano and wonderfully scored by Wojciech Golczewski, 'Night of the Wolf' gets an 8 out of 10 from me.